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The Bullet Train for Australia Party has no official position on any other policy areas apart from High-Speed-Rail (HSR), Bullet Trains, Very Fast Trains, Fast-rail and related topics.

2. Do you support a High Speed Rail Link between Sydney/Canberra/Melbourne?

Yes

3. Are you comfortable with the distribution of wealth in modern day Australia?

The Bullet Train for Australia Party has no official position on any other policy areas apart from High-Speed-Rail (HSR), Bullet Trains, Very Fast Trains, Fast-rail and related topics.

4. Recent polling (Auspoll) shows housing affordability to be a critical issue for a majority of Australians, with 84% of respondents saying it was important to them or their families, putting housing affordability ahead of issues such as education, border security, the NBN and NDIS.

The same poll also revealed that 84% of respondents also believe that Australia is not performing well on housing affordability.

Australian Governments are failing badly on this issue of critical importance to Australians.
What would you do to improve housing affordability?

Good question – This only makes me think about having a way to connect regional Australia where housing is affordable to the job plentiful cities. High speed rail would do this. re-vitalizing and connecting towns to the major cities.

5. To me the NBN seems like a great idea, can you tell me why you think it’s ace/a dumb idea.

The Bullet Train for Australia Party has no official position on any other policy areas apart from High-Speed-Rail (HSR), Bullet Trains, Very Fast Trains, Fast-rail and related topics.

6. Do you think cyclists should be registered?!

The Bullet Train for Australia Party has no official position on any other policy areas apart from High-Speed-Rail (HSR), Bullet Trains, Very Fast Trains, Fast-rail and related topics.

7. What is your position on gay marriage?

The Bullet Train for Australia Party has no official position on any other policy areas apart from High-Speed-Rail (HSR), Bullet Trains, Very Fast Trains, Fast-rail and related topics.

8. Would you be willing to cross the floor on matters of strong personal conscience or of significant concern for your electorate?

Yes, if it concerns HSR and getting it sooner!

9. What are your views on the NSA collecting private information of Australian citizens and corporations, of the Australian government’s participation in similar programmes, and of the apparent silence of Australian politicians on the matter?

The Bullet Train for Australia Party has no official position on any other policy areas apart from High-Speed-Rail (HSR), Bullet Trains, Very Fast Trains, Fast-rail and related topics.

10. We hear so much negativity about the opposition when election time rolls around– what three things do you consider to be positive about any of your opponents and why?

The Bullet Train for Australia Party has no official position on any other policy areas apart from High-Speed-Rail (HSR), Bullet Trains, Very Fast Trains, Fast-rail and related topics.

In principle I would probably agree with a fast train network which included Canberra, just as I would prefer to see the re-opening of many of the closed country rail lines to get passengers and good back on trains and off the road (particularly the freight). But there’s no way I can see myself voting for this (or any other) single issue party. To theoretically sit in parliament and only vote on one issue, saying in effect the rest of things like employment, health, immigration etc issues are not something you’re going to vote on is ridiculous.

It’s like if a member of this party (or any other single issue party) gets voted in by some fluke, unless there is a hung parliament then that one voice will be irrelevant and would be nothing more like Dennis Stevenson sitting on the cross benches in the early days of the ACT Legislative Assembly doing nothing much more than brining forward motions to abolish self government.

We could probably afford a very fast train now, however to do so would involve letting a chinese company build it and can you imagine the outrage there! yet at the same time we are happy to whinge it costs too much and workers need to be paid more.

I’m not leaning away from single issue parties. I’m happy for them to run, but they really should at least have a stance on current issues or at least say they’d support the labour/liberal/greens stance on the issue.

Might set up a ficus party. We can always use a few more Buddha trees.

My policies:
Euthanasia: no longer necessary, meditate under a tree.
Rail: make sure there are lots of nice trees along the path
Wealth distribution: trees for the poor!
Housing: treehouses!!!
NBN: fund the crap out of it so we can share pictures of cats in trees
Cyclists: ban lycra
Gay marriage: fabulous
Floor crossing: only if the member is wearing wooden clogs
Privacy: maybe we need a few riverina redgums to block all the snooping equipment
Something positive about the other guy: He looks good in green.

Might set up a ficus party. We can always use a few more Buddha trees.

My policies:
Euthanasia: no longer necessary, meditate under a tree.
Rail: make sure there are lots of nice trees along the path
Wealth distribution: trees for the poor!
Housing: treehouses!!!
NBN: fund the crap out of it so we can share pictures of cats in trees
Cyclists: ban lycra
Gay marriage: fabulous
Floor crossing: only if the member is wearing wooden clogs
Privacy: maybe we need a few riverina redgums to block all the snooping equipment
Something positive about the other guy: He looks good in green.

You could change “He looks good in green.” to:
“His body would make great fertilizer”
Is that positive enough?